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Amby Burfoot

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Amby Burfoot has been a Runner's World editor since 1978. He won the 1968 Boston Marathon, has run more than 110, 000 miles in his life, and is the author or coauthor of six previous books. He lives in Mystic. Connecticut.

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The Best American Sports Writing 2009 (2009) — Collaboratore — 54 copie

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Data di nascita
1946-08-19
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA

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I got this book from the lender's library on the Kindle Fire and quite enjoyed it. I wouldn't call it a groundbreaking or life changing book, but it was a good read. It felt like a series of articles from Runner's World (the author was the editor there) that were combined to be this book. There were some good bits of information that I will take with me, but ultimately, it sadly won't be that memorable down the line. I did put on a wishlist 4 of the books from the chapter on essential books for runners, so that was good.

Good read, quick read, and since it was free well worth it. To actually purchase it, not so much.
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Nerdyrev1 | 2 altre recensioni | Nov 23, 2022 |
Great short profiles by a writer and marathoner with decades of experience. At a minimum, this needs to be in every school library so kids can use it to write papers for Women's History Month. But it is good reading both for the individual runners and for the slow increments of history in women's running. It starts with women running as unofficial entrants and ends up with half of all entrants being women. Quite a story.
 
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wunder | Feb 3, 2022 |
I mean the author is definitely full of himself and that gets annoying, but this was probably one of the better books I've read as far as motivating me to get back into running after years of injuries, and the book actually included plans that were helpful.

(Update two years later: I'm still a consistent runner, back up to 2 half marathons a year, and I have to largely credit this book for helping me get back into it after 8 years off.)
 
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lemontwist | 1 altra recensione | May 3, 2021 |
As the title suggests, this book is your go-to guide for running information from 2004 or so. Not that many things have changed in running since then, or at least I assume so. There are a few things I didn't like about it, yet it wasn't all bad.

First off, there are plenty of photographs of people running and looking fit and happy. That's the sort of thing you want from your fitness magazines or books. There was advice that was rather spurious and some of it was rather preachy. Take vegetarianism for instance; I will never become a vegetarian. I know it works for people, but I like meat too much. I already have a dietary restriction due to having celiac, so don't tell me that meat is out of my diet now too. I don't care about your ethical ideals. Animals exist, many exist just for our consumption, thus we should eat them. That is my ethics on eating meat. What other point does a cow even have? Perhaps I am being close-minded.

Since the book is on running in general, it realizes that women run too. Therefore, there is an entire section on women in running that I skipped since I don't need to know how to choose a sports bra.

It does tell you how to prepare for marathons and how to carbo load and the other nutritional information. If you are thinking of taking up running for any reason, this book is pretty good for that.
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Floyd3345 | 1 altra recensione | Jun 15, 2019 |

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ISBN
37
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